The new study led by Dr. Linda Ganzini, from Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center showed a loophole into the Death with Dignity Act was passed by the state in 1997. Researchers say that the Oregon's physician-assisted suicide law may not adequately protect the one in four terminally ill patients with clinical depression.

Researchers studied the data collected from 58 state residents with a terminal illness, usually cancer or ALS. These study subjects had requested assistance in dying, either directly from a physician or through an advocacy organization. 

A recent at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research has given a new insight about the development of breast cancer. Researchers have made two crucial findings related to functions for Notch in breast tissue. 

Dr Toula Bouras and colleagues found that the mechanism by which inappropriate expression of the Notch pathway may contribute to breast cancer. 

Researchers found that the Notch helps in restricting breast stem cell number hence when Notch is 'switched off ', there is a resultant expansion in breast stem cells. 

According to a new study, consumption of red wine may reduce the risk of lung cancer in people, who had ever smoked and who drank at least a glass of red wine daily.

The study, published in ‘Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers and Prevention’, found red wine contained compounds such as resveratrol and flavonoids, which may be protective against lung cancer.

For study, Chao and her colleagues looked at 84,170 men aged 45to 69 years old covered by Kaiser Permanente California health plans. 210 cases of lung cancer were identified from that data.

The FDA has told the Laboratory Corporation of America that it is illegally marketing to detect ovarian cancer at its earliest stage by a blood test. 

According to a warning letter posted Wednesday on F.D.A.’s Website, also said that the test ‘OvaSure’ was designed, developed, and validated by investigators at Yale University and not LabCorp.

Dresden, Germany - Bird flu has returned to Germany, with the H5N1 influenza virus breaking out among farm ducks in the eastern state of Saxony, officials said Thursday.

It was the first proven appearance of the disease this year in Germany. Officials were preparing to slaughter the whole flock of ducks at Goerlitz, near the Polish border.

Phnom Penh - Sir Elton John, British superstar and heavyweight activist in the fight against HIV/AIDS, has told a US magazine he is planning a visit to Cambodia.

Sir Elton and partner David Furnish have raised more than 150 million dollars for projects to assist people living with the virus through the Elton John Aids Foundation since it was set up in 1992.

"This year, we look forward to traveling to Cambodia to visit projects in that country," Kansas City-based Camp Magazine quoted Sir Elton as telling journalist and gay rights activist Mark Segal.